From the Secretary of the Navy
Can your mod be mdified so that our overworked captains are not required to the Range Dial before taking range and bearing readings intended for transmission to TDC? For example, if a captain like IGD, one of our better officers on the line, takes readings, why can't they be stored until he opens the Range Dial on the stadimeter. That way, if the stadimeter has been set to its default position, i.e. the Aob Dial, IGD could open the Range Dial, send the readings to the TDC and not lose the readings he had taken before he realized his second in command had tinkered with the stadimeter and returned it to its default position.
James Forrestal
Secretary of the Navy
7 July 1944
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